Following a surge of protests after Black Americans died at the hands of police, Black advocacy groups such as the Black Lives Matter movement are now turning their focus on economic and education justice in 2021. According to MarketWatch, the BLM network raised over $90 million USD in 2020 and will use these dollars to further help Black communities amid the impact of COVID-19.
When it comes to education, schools still remain heavily segregated by race in ethnicity even though it’s been over six decades after the Supreme Court declared “separate but equal” schools to be unconstitutional in the Brown v. Board of Education case. According to a 2017 study by the National Assessment of Educational…
